This date in history

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1853 A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur) created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London.

1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR.

1941 In an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament Winston Churchill states Britain will never surrender to "Hitler and his Nazi gang" and that "they have asked for total war. Let us make sure they get it". Afterwards Yousef Karsh captures him in his famous photograph, "The Roaring Lion".

2016 Ray Davies of The Kinks is awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II

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1775 Battle of Quebec in American Revolutionary War; Americans defeated trying to take British stronghold.

1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada.

1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1942 Battle of the Barents Sea between British Navy and German Kriegsmarine off North Cape, Norway.

1946 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

1964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)

1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail.

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1801 The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1909 In Great Britain, the Old Age Pension Law is finally instituted, providing pensions for every British subject over 70 with low income.

1910 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to rear-admiral.

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to full admiral.

1946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god.

1958 European Economic Community, better known as the European Common Market starts operation.

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1833 Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.

1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die.

1941 World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.

1942 World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals.

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1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)

1944 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.

1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.

1945 Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan.

2020 US drone strike kills top Iranian security and intelligence commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani outside Baghdad airport in Iraq.

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2020 US drone strike kills top Iranian security and intelligence commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani outside Baghdad airport in Iraq.

The commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, and several officials from Iraqi militias backed by Tehran were killed when an American MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles into a convoy that was leaving the airport. "WHAT FASCINATING MODERN AGE WE LIVE IN" meets: "Holy Shiite Batman" http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraqi-tv-reports-strike-kills-powerful-iranian-revolutionary-guard-commander/ar-BBYz0Zs?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=ieslice
I'm no longer optimistic about a happy new year this AM!

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1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.

1944 Operation Carpetbagger begins (aerial dropping of supplies and weapons to resistance fighters in Europe).

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack.

1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.

1967 Donald Campbell is killed while driving a Bluebird K7, a jet-powered boat, on Coniston Water; Campbell was trying to beat his own speed record.

1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean.

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

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2010:Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person recognized as a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, died at age 91 in Nagasaki...ie: Mr Rucky if ever!!

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1919 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)

1957 US President Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle East.

1972 US President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on a manned space shuttle.

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women.

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1681 First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address.

2016 North Korea states that they have successfully conducted their fourth nuclear test, saying it was a hydrogen bomb in a claim disputed by most international experts.

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1681 First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)

CATFISH AND I CATEGORICALLY DISPUTE THIS BRITANICLLY BIASED CALUMNY
<Virgil's ‘Aeneid‘, Book 5, when the aging Sicilian champion Entellus defeats the young Trojan Dares, blood spurting from his injured head. Both wear caestūs. Mosaic floor from a Gallo-Roman villa in Villelaure, France, ca. 175 AD. AND THERE'S MORE: https://ejmas.com/jcs/2010jcs/jcsart_murray_1007.html

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1915 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed.

1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare.

1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes.

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1960 The Polaris missile is tested.

1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton.

1999 President Bill Clinton's Impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

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1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.

1916 WWI: ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople.

1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator.

1992 George H. W. Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap.

2004 RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II

2013 130 wildfires across Australia’s east coast force thousands to evacuate their homes.

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1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane.

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands.

1986 After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.

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1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood.

1943 Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad.

1943 First US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco.

1946 UN General Assembly meets for first time in London.

1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard.

1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY.